Strategic Coaching
As the owner of Canoe for more than a decade, I understand the process of building and growing a business. It can be overwhelming, and you’ll need support along the way to realize the next steps in your career and create an actionable plan for success. Over the years, I’ve shared my knowledge to help business owners, entrepreneurs, and other creative leaders navigate their path and achieve their goals through strategic one-on-one business coaching.
I love helping clients learn how to effect meaningful change through practical, heart-led solutions.
Why Clients Come to Me
From healthcare to hospitality to publishing, I’ve worked in multiple industries as a design professional for 20 years, and shared my own road to creative entrepreneurship. My skillset and experience includes branding, product design, strategy, service design, e-commerce, and experiential marketing. As a design professor for 7 years, I know how to foster creative growth, mentor others, and inspire trust to bring out the best. I’m trained in the Co-Active Coaching Model and bring a holistic approach to my clients.
Support for Your Needs
Coaching may be right for you if you’re looking for help to:
Gain clarity on your purpose and values, both professional and personal
Think more strategically and set intentional goals
Manage your teams with emotional intelligence
Support a career transition with authentic networking, aligned job searches, interview preparation and negotiating with confidence
Potential in Practice
Assess
Coaching is a partnership, a collaboration where each step is tailored toward your specific goals. We’ll work together through an initial values assessment, one where we’ll talk about your current situation, business goals, and challenges you’re facing. This will allow us to create a personalized plan of action.
Strategize
You’ll learn how to realign your goals with your values, how to position your brand or yourself within your field, and be held accountable along the way. Extra guidance will be provided through beneficial books, podcasts, exercises, and articles.
Take Action
The goal of coaching is to come away with awareness and tools for lasting change. Confidence and trust in yourself is key, and I’m here for you each step of the way. We’ll analyze what strategies worked and which didn’t, continue to problem solve together, and build resilience.
How It Works
It begins with our 20-min complimentary Discovery Call to learn more about you, the challenges you’re facing, and how I can help. During our call, I’ll make a recommendation as to the best structure for moving forward.
Deep Dive
90-min Session, $300
For those with a defined problem that need succinct advice or direction, a 90-min consulting session will help you to find focus and distill a course of action. This session is conducted virtually and will entail pre-work prior to our call.
3 Months Package
1 x 90-min Session and 5 x 60-min Sessions
Over the course of 3 months, we’ll assess, strategize, and take tangible action on your goals. This concentrated time will bring clarity to your intentions and sync your day-to-day life with long term objectives, helping you to maintain focus. This begins with a 90-min deep dive session, followed by five 60-min sessions over the course of 3 months, meeting every 2 weeks. All sessions are conducted virtually and will entail work between meetings.
6 Months Package
1 x 90-min Session and 11 x 60-min Sessions
If you’re looking for long-term support on a multi-faceted challenge, the 6 months package offers us the time and space to dive in, identify patterns, test, and rebuild structures to sustain your career and meet broader goals. This begins with a 90-min deep dive session, followed by eleven 60-min sessions over the course of 6 months, meeting every 2 weeks. All sessions are conducted virtually and will entail work between meetings.
What People Are Saying
“I’ve worked with Natalie for several years and she is always my first go-to when I need professional guidance. Over the years she has helped me with everything from big picture thinking like mapping out long-term career goals, to more immediate needs like client proposals. Working with her has given me a stronger sense of my true potential and the confidence to ask for what I need and what I’m worth.”
— Veronica, Branding
Los Angeles, CA
“Whether it’s about my career path or a specific piece of work, I can always count on Natalie to give me honest, informed, and caring advice. Her guidance and feedback has been one of the most valuable resources for me to date.”
— Cameron, Art Direction
Austin, TX
“Natalie has this unique capability of finding the strengths in others, and not only encouraging those strengths, but really leading you to build on them to succeed. Whether she has been in the role of my art director, or simply my life coach, I always know I can look to Natalie to guide me in the direction that is best for me.”
— Chantel, Publishing
Austin, TX
“Natalie is the perfect blend of intuitive and pragmatic. As I navigate opportunities and plan my strategy, she is always the voice that protects my creativity while balancing the necessary business side of being a full time creative. She knows that hustle has to happen, but never at the expense of my creative work.”
— Kathleen, Entertainment
Los Angeles, CA
“With Natalie's help, I was able to mentally prepare for a big career transition as well as create and execute a tactical plan. Hiring Natalie was the best personal investment I made for my career.”
— Erica, Financial Technology
Oakland, CA
“Natalie has an incredible passion for helping others to better themselves. She takes a deep personal interest in seeing others succeed and really pushes them by expecting the best. Her wisdom, intellect, experience, and insight create a mentor that anybody can really learn from!”
— Sean, Gaming
Austin, TX
Let’s chat.
Whether you’re running a business, stuck in a career rut or struggling to manage a team, there are many ways strategic business coaching can help. Schedule a complimentary 20-minute discovery call to see if we’re a good match or use the form to ask a question.